Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer

The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and FalconerJames Beattie, the author of the Minstrel was born at Laurencekirk, in the county of Kincardineshirea village situated in that beautiful trough of land called the Howe of the Mearns, and surmounted by the ridge of the Garvock Hills, which divide it from the German Oceanon the 25th day of October 1735